Small Business Association of Michigan

LANSING - The campaign to repeal the Single Business Tax on December 31, 2007, reports it will hand in their petition signatures on Tuesday next week, the SBAM Weekly Advocate reports. The petition drive that was started by Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson needed to collect 250,000 signatures and will hand over a reported

LANSING - The Small Business Association of Michigan is offering political candidates an opportunity to learn more about the key legislative and economic issues that affect the small business community and fill out a candidate survey that will help guide SBAM's political action committee in its election endorsement decisions. SBAM?s website has a link to

LANSING- SBAM's latest quarterly Small Business Barometer survey finds that 30 percent of small business owners plan to increase their number of employees over the next 12 months. ?The number of employers who say they expect to increase their number of workers in the coming year has fluctuated between 20 percent and 30 percent since

LANSING - Mark Clevey, Vice President for Entrepreneurial Development for the Small Business Association of Michigan, has been appointed to the National Science Foundation's Office of Industrial Innovation SBIR/STTR Program Advisory Committee. The office oversees the awarding of federal research grants to small businesses seeking to research and develop breakthrough technology innovations. The NSF is

LANSING ? Clark Hill attorneys John L. Gierak and Maria Fracassa Dwyer will conduct a free online Minimum Wage Increase: Potential Exemption Pitfalls webinar on May 31 to discuss Michigan's minimum wage increase and its impact upon future overtime exemptions for employees. The state minimum wage will increase to $6.95 per hour effective October 1,

LANSING - The Small Business Association of Michigan board has named Patti Townsend of Abbi Nursing in Kalamazoo as the Advocate Of the Year. The SBAM board also named Michigan House Speaker Craig DeRoche Legislator of the Year and Carol Cain, small business columnist for the Detroit Free Press, as Communicator of the Year. All

LANSING - SBAM's latest quarterly Small Business Barometer survey shows that only 6 percent of small businesses hired more workers in the fourth quarter on 2005, the second lowest level reported in the 13-and-a-half-year history of the Barometer. Twenty-one percent say they hired fewer workers ? the second highest level in the history of the

DETROIT ? The U.S. Small Business Administration has announced its 2006 Michigan Small Business Person of the Year and champion awards, which will be presented on April 19 during the second annual Michigan Celebrates Small Business awards dinner in East Lansing. Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm will be the keynote speaker at this event to recognize

LANSING - Michigan's outstanding small businesses will receive statewide recognition on April 19 as the state's major business organizations and agencies collaborate for the second annual Michigan Celebrates Small Business event. The cooperative effort ? which will name the Michigan 50 Companies to Watch, as well as Small Business Person of the Year ? is

LANSING - The Small Business Association of Michigan praised the action Wednesday by the Michigan Senate to accelerate the repeal of the Single Business Tax to 2007 from 2009 and urged the governor to sign the legislation. ?Repealing the SBT, even before a replacement system is in place, is the appropriate step to take in